What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Circus’ and ‘Radio Days’

By JOSHUA BARONE

March 19, 2017

“The Circus,” Showtime’s documentary series that captured the 2016 election in real time, returns to cover the early days of the Trump administration. And Woody Allen’s nostalgic film “Radio Days” is on Hulu.

What’s on TV

President Trump in “The Circus.”

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THE CIRCUS8 p.m. on Showtime. The first season of this newsy documentary series, presented by Mark McKinnon and the “Game Change” authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, provided real-time glimpses inside the wild 2016 election. Season 2 will focus on the early days of the Trump administration and the stories behind the daily barrage of newspaper headlines and tweets.

60 MINUTES7 p.m. on CBS. Bill Whitaker explores the H-1B visa program, which was devised to help American companies recruit tech talent from around the world, in “You’re Fired.” Then, Scott Pelley reports on the civil war in South Sudan in “Fighting Famine,” and Lesley Stahl visits the set of “Sesame Street” in “New Kid on the Street.”

Maika Monroe in “It Follows.”

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IT FOLLOWS (2015) 8 p.m. on TMC. David Robert Mitchell’s slick teenage horror film is both a homage to the genre’s tropes and a refreshingly original story full of haunting mystery. To explain the terrifying plot would be both difficult and unfair to those who aren’t familiar with it. “‘It Follows’ abides by a principle that few horror movies have the courage to embrace: The unknown is the unknown,” Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times. “Clues to the source and motives of this menace are dropped, but they don’t add up. Like the evil in a David Lynch horror film, it is out there in the night, waiting to get you.”

BIG LITTLE LIES9 p.m. on HBO. David E. Kelley’s mini-series, gorgeously directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, continues with its fifth of seven installments. Among this week’s drama: Madeline receives encouraging but still worrisome news about the play, while Dr. Reisman tries to understand Celeste’s relationship with Perry. Then on “Girls,” at 10, Hannah gets some advice from her dad about a big life decision (no spoilers here). At 10:30, Pete Holmes’s comedy “Crashing,” presented in part by Judd Apatow, returns with Pete’s parents coming to New York. He begs Jess to tag along to pretend they are still married. But a tense dinner puts the charade to a test. Stick around at 11 for the latest episode of “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.” All these are also streaming on HBO Go and HBO Now.

What’s Streaming

Diane Keaton in “Radio Days.”

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RADIO DAYS (1987) on Hulu. The Times critic Vincent Canby (1924-2000), in his review of this nostalgic movie, lyrically recalled its era, the 1930s and ’40s: “Radio wasn’t outside our lives. It coincided with — and helped to shape — our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music shows.” This brief and “enchanted” period, Mr. Canby continued, is what “Woody Allen remembers in his most buoyant, comic and poignantly expressed of memoirs, titled, with his unflagging, poetic exactitude, ‘Radio Days.’”